Hello!
I wanted to suggest adding in a reconnection mechanism when the media player times out. I recently wrote a post about how to get livestreaming working (post is pending approval still), but there is an issue where some players with unreliable internet (e.g. satellite) will lose the video stream. When I’m live streaming, it’s just a long-running TCP socket and any interruption will kill the stream and will appear frozen to the player. The user has to press the “reload” button to get the video to work again.
I’m wondering if there could be an auto reconnect feature. If there’s a read timeout detected (or if the socket dies unexpectedly), can the “reload” button’s function get called? It would cause a little bit of a blip in the video stream but it would be better than having the user press reload.